Oprah sells painting for $196 million [Greedy 1%er]

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[SoFloFreeper]

....., according to Bloomberg, she sold a painting by Gustav Klimt for $196 million to an unnamed Chinese buyer....

....Oprah purchased the painting at a Christie’s auction in 2006 for $115 million....

[Salamander]

So, by extrapolation, if I finger paint a dead fish and apply gold leaf to it, it’s *fabulous*?

:D

[Salamander]

My windows look like this, thanks to my dogs’ nose art.

[Jack the dripper <-—epic, stealing that] LMAO

[Gaffer]

Apparently so! :0) That painting in the movie was worth $100 Million IIRC.

[Salamander]

Huh.

I thought my kindergarten teacher threw those away...

[Salamander]

If somebody gave it me, I would take it solely to turn around sell it.

Bleah.

[Gaffer]

No argument there.

[xp38]

Oh that’s not mine. Heard it ages ago. I think someone coined it back when he first became famous.

[ETL]

Lol! There are chimps that create better “art” than that. There’s even a horse that paints. They stick a brush in its mouth and it moves it over a canvas.

[xp38]

One thing you can say about a Jackson Pollock work is that there is a lot going on in them (complexity and nuance). :D

[Salamander]

Still stealing it.

:D

[Salamander]

Yeah....I *could* say that.

[but dogs doing the same thing is way more amazing, I think]

;)

[xp38]

Oh I forgot to give that work its official title. It’s called Number 17A. Created in 1948. Sold by the David Geffin Foundation to Kenneth C. Griffin for $200 million in 2015.

[xp38]

True

[xp38]

Here is a current weather map I stole from the snowstorm thread. I think the creator is God. He does artistic work on a continual basis. Lots of complexity and nuance in this one too!

[Salamander]

Everything He does is much better.

The “blizzard” we were supposed to have last night amounted to maybe a cup of snow, if I were to go out and attempt to gather up the random blobs.

I love global warming.

:)

[Rinnwald]

Figures. It’s raining over me.

[ETL]

At least it’s partly representational and not completely full blown abstract modern art.

I'd take a realistic Rembrandt portrait, or Albert Bierstadt landscape, any day over most everything else out there.

These guys had serious LEGIT talent.

Albert_Bierstadt - Among the Sierra Nevada, California

Albert Bierstadt - Giant Redwood Trees of California

[ETL]

More Albert Bierstadt...

[NormsRevenge]

Is this why she needs a 60 Minutes gig on TV?? Low on cash?

Frankly, she never left, maybe her networks are dogs like her agenda

[JimRed]

Smart or lucky choice of investments. Faulting a person for taking advantage of such an opportunity doesn’t make sense. She took the risk and reaped the profit; it could just as well have gone down in value.